Promising a separate state of Gorkhaland, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday got a new ally in the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), which is set to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and support BJP candidate Jaswant Singh for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal.
Though the development lifted weeks of suspense over GJM’s political stand in the upcoming polls, it drew sharp reaction from its allies in the Darjeeling hills, who said supping with the BJP would not help the cause of Gorkhaland. MORE...
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